Russell Jackson | EVP Global Transit
AECOM

Meet Russell Jackson, EVP Global Transit at AECOM. Russell is a civil engineer with over 30 years’ experience in executive business management, major project design management and multi-disciplinary engineering of infrastructure projects. As AECOM’s Global Transit EVP, he provides worldwide leadership and strategic direction across our $1.2bn of annual Transit revenues. AECOM is the number 1 transit firm by fees in 2023 according to Engineering News-Record. Russell’s focus is on key clients, capability, major programme delivery, large-scale pursuits and industry thought leadership. As Global Transit EVP he leads the strategy for growth in the sector. AECOM has five Global Business Lines and Transit is part of the Transportation GBL. These business lines co-ordinate across the seven global Regions and 55,000 people in AECOM’s operational teams. He is a Fellow of the ICE and PWI, holds an MBA from Imperial College London and is a Senior Visiting Research fellow at Bath University. Russell has also lectured on Management and Leadership at the Birmingham University Centre for Railway Research and Education.